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SYRIA News, Nov 03, 2011


Syrian forces kill five in Homs, day after Arab deal
Reuters
Assad has said security forces are battling Islamist militants and armed gangs who the authorities say have killed 1100 soldiers and police. The United Nations says the crackdown on demonstrations has killed more than 3000 people. ...
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UN's Ban: Palestinians Should Defer Agency Bids
NPR
Ban also expressed hope for greater participation of women and youths in Libya's future government, and praised a new Arab League deal with Syria aiming to end President Bashar Assad's bloody crackdown on protesters. Potential funding woes for UN ...
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Syria: President Assad's trail of promises
Ahram Online
August 18: Assad, ahead of a Security Council meeting, announces the end of military operations, a measure which is not followed on the ground. August 22: United Nationssecretary-general Ban Ki-moon terms as "problematic", Assad's inability to respect ...
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ICRC seeks Syrian prison access on its terms
Reuters UK
Syrian army deserters killed seven soldiers and eight members of the security forces and gunmen loyal to President Assad in an apparent response to the killing of 11 villagers earlier Wednesday, an activist group said. Activists say people have been ...
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Q&A: The Free Syrian Army
BBC News
On 8 October, Col Asad told the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet Daily News that the FSA could achieve its aims "if the international community helps us" but that the task would be more difficult without arms. He also called for a UN-imposed no-fly zone over ...
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UN Chief Urges Libya To Secure Gadhafi's Weapons
NPR
The UN chief also reiterated his concern about the bloodshed in Syria, where President Bashar Assad has overseen a brutal crackdown on anti-government protesters. "The killing of the Syrian people must stop immediately," Ban said, adding that he had ...
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Magic Kingdom: Is Qatar Too Good To Be True?
TIME (blog)
In July, Qatar became the first Gulf nation to close its embassy in Damascus, a not-so-subtle denouncement of Syria's Bashar al Assad's regime. Qatar might be the champion of regional revolutions, but its bold stance could backfire if declared enemies ...
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Israel hit complex that 'should have been declared'
WND.com
By Stewart Stogel UNITED NATIONS – The International Atomic Energy Agency, the United Nations nuclear watchdog, in its annual report to the General Assembly, this week confirmed that the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad covertly had been working to ...
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WND.com
The Syrians are on their Own
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Following their Security Council veto against a new Syrian resolution on October 4, Russia and China have emerged as villains who, according to US ambassador the United Nations Susan Rice, “would rather sell weapons to the Syrian regime than stand with ...
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Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
ICRC seeks Syrian prison access on its terms
Reuters
Syrian army deserters killed seven soldiers and eight members of the security forces and gunmen loyal to President Assad in an apparent response to the killing of 11 villagers earlier Wednesday, an activist group said. Activists say people have been ...
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RFE/RL Radio
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, citing witnesses, said all the casualties were reported in the restive province of Homs. Homs has been a flashpoint of protests against President Bashar al-Assad's regime. The United Nations ...
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Chapter 6: Israel and Hamas reach fragile cease-fire in Gaza [Al-Alam, Iran]
Link TV
He described the victims of the Syrian revolution as "martyrs," adding that Assad has lost all legitimacy. Without mentioning them by name, Erdogan criticized Russia and China over their position at the UN Security Council. He said that the Syrian ...
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Russian military ties with Syria concrete
UPI.com
... have been killed in Syria since an uprising against Syrian President Bashar Assadbegan in mid-March. Human rights groups have accused Syrian forces of torturing civilians, including children, during the crackdown. The UN Security Council hasn't ...
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41 times maşallah!
Today's Zaman
Turkey's recent moves to distance itself from Iran (by agreeing to host NATO's missile defense radar) and Syria (by writing off the Assad regime) have appealed to the US government the most. Even Ankara's seriously deteriorated relations with Israel ...
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London's Puppet Obama Triggers Global War
Executive Intelligence Review (EIR)
British agent Susan Rice made herself perfectly clear, when she went ballistic against Russia and China for vetoing the UN Security Council resolution that would have launched a Libya-style regime-change campaign against the Assad government in Syria....
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Libya recolonised
Real News Network (blog)
Given this basic principle, the issue of Qaddafi's dictatorial rule is just as irrelevant todayas was the nature of Saddam Hussein's rule in the past; and as irrelevant as would be the dictatorial temper of Bashar al-Asad in Syria or Mahmoud ...
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The road to Damascus
Hindustan Times
But all three, as temporary members of the UNSC, abstained from voting on a resolution calling for sanctions against Syria. If the three countries had voted 'yes', it'd have sent a strong message to the Bashar al-Assad regime that even sympathetic ...
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Geagea criticizes law on Lebanese in Israel
NOW LEBANON
Geagea also said that “the Syrian regime cannot apply the Arab delegation's proposal, and will not withdraw its army from the [country's] streets and allow Arab and international organizations as well as the media to enter Syria. ...
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Daily Press Briefing
US Department of State (press release)
But the important reality that we have to grapple with, and that the world has to grapple with, is that today, we are living under US legislation which requires us to cut off US funding to any UN agencies that go in the direction that UNESCO has gone ...
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The Halloween Horror: One Year Since Baghdad Cathedral Attack
Huffington Post (blog)
Most of all, I fear for Syria, which bears some resemblance to Saddam's Iraq. The Christians of Syria will suffer the same fate as the Christians of Iraq whenever Assad'sregime comes to its end. And there is more. At the meal following the Mass at the ...
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Another Week - 04 November 2011
FM.co.za
Syrian leader Bashar al- Assad warns of an “earthquake” if the West intervenes in his country, where 3000 people have died this year in protests calling for him to go. Japan intervenes in the currency market to weaken the yen, which drops 5% as a ...
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Is the West Edging Closer to an Attack on Iran?
IBTimes
Syria's Assad is also in a hot seat but appears determined to keep a tight grip on power despite months of anti-government protests and a crackdown that, according to the UN has killed more than 3000 people. The United Kingdom is prepared to militarily ...
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IBTimes
Syria's Assad warns Western powers - TODAY News - TODAY.com
Assad's warning came ahead of Syrian government talks on Sunday with the Arab ...seven-month uprising has drawn criticism from the United Nations and Arab ...
today.msnbc.msn.com/.../gaddafis-death-emboldens-anti-assad...
Syrian crackdown 'looking increasingly unsustainable': diplomat
Cracks in Syria's military are widening along sectarian lines, say analysts, ...Demonstrators protest against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Hula, near ... on with a crackdown which the United Nations says has killed 3000 people. .... in Syriafeel unfairly targeted by sanctions – Los Angeles Times — Today News Now ...
news.nationalpost.com/.../syrian-crackdown-looking-increasin...
Should the UN sanction action against Syria? - Channel 4 News
President Assad, UN flag, Colonel Gaddafi (Getty, Reuters) ... told Channel 4 News in the event of action against Assad, the potential for Syria's instability to spill over to the rest of the region is great: "Syria certainly has ... Today's latest articles ...
www.channel4.com/.../should-the-un-sanction-action-against-s...
World War 3 News: Syrian Domino: UN's IAEA Claims Assad ...
Syrian Domino: UN's IAEA Claims Assad Regime Working on Nukes ... of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue,” the Associated Press reports today. ...
worldwar3news.blogspot.com/.../syrian-domino-uns-iaea-clai...
Assad willing to enter talks with opposition - RTÉ News
President Bashar al-Assad has said that he is willing to talk to the opposition. ... Play Stop. Six One News: Syrian president warns West to not intervene ... A two- week deadline set by the Arab League for the planned dialogue to start expires today. TheUnited Nations says 3000 people have been killed during the uprising . ...
www.rte.ie/news/2011/1030/syria.html
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